scholarly journals Optimization of a Method to Isolate and Culture Adult Porcine, Rats and Mice Müller Glia in Order to Study Retinal Diseases

Author(s):  
Xandra Pereiro ◽  
Noelia Ruzafa ◽  
Arantxa Acera ◽  
Aritz Urcola ◽  
Elena Vecino
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amany Emam ◽  
Marina Yoffe ◽  
Henry Cardona ◽  
Daphne Soares

AbstractThe teleost Astyanax mexicanus is extant in two readily available forms. One that lives in Mexican rivers and various convergent forms that live in nearby caves. These fish are born with eyes but in the cavefish they degenerate during development. It is known that the lens of cavefish undergoes apoptosis and that some cells in the neuroretina also die. It has not been described, however, if glia and various components of the neuroretina form before complete eye degeneration. Here we examined the development of the retina of the closest living ancestor that lives in the rivers and members of two lineages of cavefish. We report that although the neuroretina is smaller and more compact, it has all cell types and layers including amacrine cells and Muller glia. While various makers for photoreceptors are present in the cavefish inner segments, the outer segments of the photoreceptors in cavefish are missing from the earliest stages examined. This shows that the machinery for visual transducing discs might still be present but not organized in one part of the cell. It is interesting to note that the deficiencies in Astyanax cavefish resemble retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa.


Author(s):  
Hui Gao ◽  
Luodan A ◽  
Xiaona Huang ◽  
Xi Chen ◽  
Haiwei Xu

Glia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies Van Dyck ◽  
Ilse Bollaerts ◽  
An Beckers ◽  
Sophie Vanhunsel ◽  
Nynke Glorian ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 427 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Lamas ◽  
Irene Lee-Rivera ◽  
Mónica Ramírez ◽  
Ana María López-Colomé

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1797-1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana María López-Colomé ◽  
Edith López ◽  
Orquidia G. Mendez-Flores ◽  
Arturo Ortega

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